Síonfest 6

After a 12 internal selections Daléríqa announced that they will be returning to a national selection to choose the entry for the nineteenth edition of the Maia Song Contest.

It was announced that there will be 10 entries in this edition

Format
10 entries will be performed on the night of the Grand Final. They will be voted on by a combination of international juries and a public vote (made up from SMS, televoting, and app votes). When voting closes, the points will be revealed and added together. The contestant with the highest number of points will be declared as the winner and will be selected to represent Daléríqa in Maia Song Contest 18.

Entry selection
DBN approached many established Dalérín artists as well as holding an open submission for the first time, receiving 2,523 submissions in total. Entries submitted for the competition were required to be between three and five minutes long, with at least one songwriter holding Dalérín citizenship. DBN created a shortlist of entries from the received submissions from both established stars and unknown artists and formed a selection panel that evaluated the submissions and selected twelve entries for the competition.

Presenters
It has been officially confirmed in a DBN press conference that HoD Adrian Posteraro will return to present the National Final for the fifth time in a row. He will be joined again with his sister Lorena Posteraro and Jeannie Mai as the green room host.

Entries
The artists were announced on 7 June 2018, the the entries alongside the composers who had written the entries were revealed the following day.

Final
A playlist can be found here

A recap can be found here

The final will take place in the Kutréarena, on xx June 2018, with the winner will be decided by a combination of public televoting and national juries made up out music professionals as in previous editions of the show.